Protestantism

» Migisi - Lost Freedom

In response to Whose Freedom posted by pink101:
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Freedom of speech, guaranteed by the Constitution, has been lost to the troops ....
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No more news from the boys, and e-mail home to mom and pop, and wife and kids needs military clearance?!
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New Army Rules Could Kill G.I. Blogs (Maybe E-mail, Too)
http://blog.wired.com/defense/2007/05/ne...
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"The U.S. Army has ordered soldiers to stop posting to blogs or sending personal e-mail messages, without first clearing the content with a superior officer, Wired News has learned. The directive, issued April 19, is the sharpest restriction on troops' online activities since the start of the Iraq war. And it could mean the end of military blogs, observers say.
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"Military officials have been wrestling for years with how to handle troops who publish blogs. Officers have weighed the need for wartime discretion against the opportunities for the public to personally connect with some of the most effective advocates for the operations in Afghanistan and Iraq -- the troops themselves. The secret-keepers have generally won the argument, and the once-permissive atmosphere has slowly grown more tightly regulated. Soldier-bloggers have dropped offline as a result.
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"The new rules, obtained by Wired News, require a commander be consulted before every blog update.
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"This is the final nail in the coffin for combat blogging," said retired paratrooper Matthew Burden, editor of The Blog of War anthology. "No more military bloggers writing about their experiences in the combat zone. This is the best PR the military has -- it's most honest voice out of the war zone. And it's being silenced."
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It's clear the military is afraid that someone will expose the truth about what's going on. Can't have that kind of honest reporting, can we.

-- posted by Migisi